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Wednesday, 19 August 2015

IeSF's 7th e-Sports World Championship

The
International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) has announced that the 7th
e-Sports World Championship 2015, which is the sole international
e-Sports event where players compete as representing their countries
will be held in Seoul, South Korea in early December 2015.

The
city of Lodz, which had been selected as the host city of the 7th
e-Sports World Championship 2015 withdrew hosting the event due to
political issues from the city in May, 2015. The board and the
technical committee of IeSF examined candidates who applied to become
the new host city, and finally decided Seoul as the host city of the
7th e-Sports World Championship, and officially
announced that the 7th e-Sports World Championship will be held in
Seoul from December 2 to 5.

With
the announcement of the new host city, IeSF technical committee has
also announced the official titles for the 7th e-Sports World
Championship 2015. After reviewing the e-Sports culture in the host
country and the demands of its member National Federations, IeSF has
finalized following 3 official game titles: ‘League
of Legends’,
‘StarCraft®
II’
and ‘Hearthstone®:
Heroes of Warcraft™’.
These titles are opened to all potential players regardless of
gender, disability or age ever since they are officially selected by
the National Federations representing their countries.

‘League
of Legends’
was the official title for the 5th e-Sports World Championship
Bucharest 2013. In order to promote and expand the amateur base
globally, IeSF and Riot Games made a consensus to limit participating
players to amateur players, who have not participated in professional
and semi pro League of Legends competitions in 2015.

StarCraft
II has been continuously adopted
as
official title for IeSF World Championship since 2011,
and participation of member
nation’s
representative players are growing fast year by year. Moreover,
in 2013 from 5th
e-Sports World Championship, it has been seen
that many of female players’
participation in the game. On
the other hand, Hearthstone was selected as the 6th e-Sports World
Championship 2014’s official title, and brought issues like female
participating in open for all division and 16 years old Tunisian
player, Ben Amine won the Champion.

Concurrently
announcing titles, IeSF 43 member national federations will commence
their
national qualifiers. Players who are selected through national
qualifier will be
formally
recognized
as
sports athletes
representing each country at the World Championship with endorsement
of their government or national sports authority.

The
official Entry Registration for 7th e-Sports World Championship 2015
is now open, and IeSF will announce all fixed participants list from
each country by October.